fix AttributeError

[sfa.git] / sfa / util / xml.py

diff --git a/sfa/util/xml.py b/sfa/util/xml.py
old mode 100644 (file)
new mode 100755 (executable)
index 89eef9e..8f51ce3
--- a/sfa/util/xml.py
+++ b/sfa/util/xml.py
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ class XML:
     def toxml(self):
         return etree.tostring(self.root, encoding='UTF-8', pretty_print=True)  
     
+    # XXX smbaker, for record.load_from_string
     def todict(self, elem=None):
         if elem is None:
             elem = self.root
@@ -226,7 +227,11 @@ class XML:
             if child.tag not in d:
                 d[child.tag] = []
             d[child.tag].append(self.todict(child))
-        return d            
+
+        if len(d)==1 and ("text" in d):
+            d = d["text"]
+
+        return d
         
     def save(self, filename):
         f = open(filename, 'w')